How much sharing is too much?

[StarFox]

I am constantly surprised by how much people share about their personal lives on the internet. The same internet billions of other people(strangers no less) surf every day and night. Now I don't see any thing wrong with this...but how much is too much?
Granted the whole Riverton thing was leaked on My Space, I still don't feel the need to know what some guys cat puked up on his kitchen floor.

[PerfectKnight42]

I think Myspace is the root of all evil. Tom needs to die... and it's time to take these matters into my own hands.... =P

[melihop]

lol.. i use myspace and lj... lj for my journals.. i talk on aim and message boards online.. i figure i have about a week before somone kidnaps me and i am murdered or raped.... oops.. lol

[Maester]

I sometimes lie about my own age/sex/location. Sometimes for fun, sometimes because I think people are creeps. lol

[mrbiggs]

If someone tried hard enough, they could probably find out nearly anything they wanted to about me.

But I don't think it will be a problem.

[MyrddinsPrecint]

anything i say is oversharing.

but only here.

elsewhere, i undershare.

[Aqua_volans]

if you looked hard enough. you should find A LOT about me... not telling you how.

[Black Jeebus]

I actually don't do anything to hide who I am here. After someone guessed who I was just from mentioning I was in Savannah and figured out who the new kid in Savannah was, I figured with fNet I might actually stand a fairly large chance of meeting a lot of the forumites.

So yeah I probably overshare here. Of course I clicked the poll without reading the post and said that I didn't know what sharing is. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHARING IS. I HAVE NEVER, AND WILL NEVER SHARE ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET! let's hope the RIAA can't figure out how to highlight anything!! ^_^

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

I'm no secret. Hi mr stalker.

[DJ Apostrophe]

anything i say is oversharing.

but only here.

elsewhere, i undershare.

Dear... you may want to rethink that statement.... (Recalls a text message I got from you friday night...)

-w

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Dear... you may want to rethink that statement.... (Recalls a text message I got from you friday night...)

-w

i was trying to punish you for undersharing!!!!!!!!!!!



ok. i overshare with total strangers and good friends.

i don't share at all with people i only kind of know.

[howtobrew]

Probably the two main areas to avoid oversharing are Financial-Identity Theft, and (stalking). Most of you young adults don't have any finances to speak of, so you are fairly safe from being exploited in that regard.

The stalking aspect has more potential for some of you than others (eg. DFP). I am not too familiar with MySpace, but one of my coworkers was shaking her head at her niece's website, which makes her look like "sixteenyearold for hire". I think there are an uncomfortably large number of weirdos in the world, and as a Dad, it worries me. I wanted to get lucky when I was sixteen too, but as a parent, especially these days, you really don't want your child being careless and getting harmed.

FWIW,
HtB

[KShan5[PrFC]]

elsewhere, i undershare.

UNTRUE!!!!

[MyrddinsPrecint]

UNTRUE!!!!

my claim has already been revised.

[bjacobs]

It's really important to choose a clever, anonymous name to post under online, so no one can figure out who....oh crap.

[bigdawg2121]

Yeah b/c lord forbid we find out some really embarrassing or blackmail worthy info on b jacobs from metro new york city

[LUDICROUS]

Meh, each to their own.


But if people who know you in real life find out, you'll get hammered

Esp when fencers on this board go to Hungarian fencing camps with fencers from my club

One person from my club is there at the moment, along with various Fnetters like Nusy and Zmurf.

I wonder if they'll find out.....

[Boo Boo]

Personally I wouldn't publically share personal information such as:
- real name
- address
- phone number
- email address
- anything financial/security related (i.e. bank accounts/passwords etc.)

Am also careful which photos I post (something the under-18s should be particularly careful about - in what can be a sad, sad world ).

It is quite funny, some of the British Fencing officials on the British Fencing Forum get openly mad that a lot of people use anonymous pseudonyms on forums - apparently we should all use our real names...

Boo

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Yeah b/c lord forbid we find out some really embarrassing or blackmail worthy info on b jacobs from metro new york city

what if we already have some???

[Gav]

It is quite funny, some of the British Fencing officials on the British Fencing Forum get openly mad that a lot of people use anonymous pseudonyms on forums - apparently we should all use our real names...

Boo

Very true.

I've tried to educate a few people over time. I hope that the message is getting through.